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Principal's Message                                    October 4, 2019
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Happy Fall Break!

Can you believe that the first quarter of the 2019-2020 school year is already over and it's time for fall break?!  We have so much to share from this quarter.  We'll start with two Q1 events below:

"Be Kind People" Assembly

Memory Monday: On August 30, Fountain Hills High School hosted the "Be Kind People" assembly presented by the Be Kind Crew for K-5th grade students.  We traveled to FHHS and enjoyed dancing, singing, and a great message about being kind. Thank you, Dr. Jagodzinski and FHHS STUGO for making this possible! We also want to thank the Arizona Diamondbacks who sent D. Baxter the Bobcat to join us and who also chose MMES as the recipient of a DBacks Buddy Bench!

 






Ballet Under the Stars

Fountain Hills is one of only 3 to 4 state communities that hosts "Ballet Under the Stars" every September. Ballet Arizona dancers rehearsed with our MMES third graders and FHMS fourth graders supervised by our music teacher, Mrs. Perkins and the performance was on September 11 at Fountain Park! Our students and Ballet Arizona danced beautifully!






After fall break, we'll have more Quarter 1 highlights for you including the Apex Fun Run fundraiser, Constitution Day/Citizenship assembly, Preschool Ice Cream Social, Second Grade Fine Arts Night, FHPTO Scholastic "Arctic Adventure" Book Fair, Red Ribbon Week, International Walk to School Day, and the "One and Only You" Rock Garden Project! So many amazing things are always happening at MMES!


Special Announcements
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Congratulations to Kiwanis Terrific Kids 
for September 23-27!
 
Kindergarten: Pablo Michel
First Grade: Aayden Etheridge
Second Grade: Mason Otto
Third Grade: Claire Stumpf
 
  
 
Congratulations to Kiwanis Terrific Kids 
for September 30-October 4!
 
Kindergarten: Travis Ostlund
First Grade: Emery Weil
Second Grade: Jonah Maroon
Third Grade: Cullen Bratcher
 

 
Thank you for joining us, 
Noon Kiwanis Club members, 
Joyce Stehlik and Phyliss Kern!

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Looking Ahead
View upcoming events of the week ahead
 
10/7/19-10/11/19

 Fall break: no school
10/14/19
School resumes
Beginning of 2nd quarter

10/14/19-
10/18/19		 Fire Prevention Week (fire department presents in PS & K classrooms and for a 1st-3rd grade assembly)
10/16/19
2:20: Student early release for staff professional development
6:30 p.m.: Governing Board meeting

10/17/19
6:00-8:00 p.m.: 1-2-3 Magic Parent University Part 1

10/18/19
Picture retakes

10/22/19
5:15-5:45 p.m.: Title I Annual Parent Meeting in library
6:00-7:00 p.m.: Family Math & Games Night in multipurpose room 

10/25/19
Falcon Friday: Wear blue!
9:00-1:00: PS1-2 field trip to MacDonald's Ranch Pumpkin Patch - Scottsdale
Deadline for Falcon Leaders' Peanut Butter Drive


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The McDowell Mountain students, staff, parents, and community will provide a safe, child centered environment that builds self-esteem, self-discipline, and the essential skills for life long learning. While adapting to the differences of others and by using responsible decision making, students will exhibit citizenship with the motivation to invent, dream, explore, and communicate in our changing world. At McDowell Mountain School everyone is a learner and will encourage and help others to be successful learners.
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